Good evening and good night.

As things become more 'everyday', it seems less and less newsworthy. That's why I haven't been doing many blog entries - or "blur" entries as my mom said today.

So I thought hard and realized that there are things to write about, and those things would be all the little, cultural things that I've been learning since I arrived.

One of the biggest things is how friendly and polite the people are. I've had to re-condition myself to actually make eye-contact with people, and actually say hello - or rather, "Good morning/afternoon". They know you're a foreigner if you just use "hello". Just a few days after I arrived, I was in a park and some boys raced past me on my bike. In my head, the warning flags went off to be cautious as I would back home. However, one of them took the effort to call out "Good evening" . How polite! Even the most unsuspecting person will make eye contact and greet you, so I've had to get passed some of my Canadian ways in that sense.

Maybe I'll save the rest for other days.

Here's a couple of photos.
One is of the first cruise ship of the year to arrive. I took the photo from right by my office.
The second (you may have already seen on flickr) is a photo I took walking home from work one night.